September 08, 2008

Tiny Prints Holiday Cards and Business Holiday Cards

A couple of years ago, I was Googling around for "modern holiday cards" (using those exact search terms) and I stumbled upon a site called Tiny Prints. I ordered some holiday cards and was so impressed that not only did I order cards from them the next year (along with everyone else, it seems, because we received so many cute Tiny Prints cards last winter and all of them different), but I ordered personalized stationery for my daughters from them as well. I love that the colors are true, the photo print quality is nice, and the cards are printed on weighty card stock, not the cheap stuff. I also love that they are located about 10 minutes from where I live.

I have been a happy, paying customer of Tiny Prints for over two years.

That's why when they approached me to write about their new holiday and corporate holiday card promotion, I happily agreed to do it. When they said they'd offer one of my readers a $50 gift certificate, I was even more delighted. When they threw in one for me, well, naturally that sealed the deal. You know I tell you the real deal about stuff people send me, but since I already planned to order my holiday cards from Tiny Prints anyway, I'll use my gift certificate for that.

So here are the contest details. I know most people's eyes glaze over when faced with an explanation of a blog contest, but I promise, these are pretty painless. And best of all you get to see the very newest holiday cards before everyone else does. (Kinda.) It's a fun contest.

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Win a $50 gift
certificate from Tiny Prints!

Show your
holiday spirit and share your favorite new card design for
2008

A leader in holiday
photo cards, Tiny Prints is so excited about the upcoming
2008 holiday card line that they couldn’t wait to offering a
sneak peek to showcase the all new card designs.
Enter their contest to help determine what cards will be most popular
this coming holiday. During this early preview period, the new
holiday cards are not yet available for purchase; however,
for a very limited time you can receive amazing early-bird savings on
their soon-to-be retired photo
cards, Christmas
cards and holiday
invitations.

To help them celebrate
the launch, they’re looking for contestants to review any of
their very newest 2008 Christmas
cards, holiday
photo cards and business
holiday cards for those who work in or own companies.
Simply go to Tiny Prints (www.tinyprints.com),
browse your favorite 2008 holiday card designs currently being
previewed and save your favorite 2008 design in your
account by clicking the “save in favorites”
button. Then come back to this blog post and provide a link to the specific
holiday card (see link for example) in the comments below
indicating what you liked best about it. Please note that some
designs are so new that they cannot yet be customized, but will be
soon (early October and hundreds more designs)!

The contest will run
through Tuesday, September 30th2008.
Winners will then be drawn at random from people who have properly
followed the above directions and placed comments in this blog post.
Please create your comment using the same e-mail address you used
when creating an account on Tiny
Prints so participation can be verified.

It was so hard to narrow down the field to just one (which is why "My Favorites" contains several cards) but I finally settled on this as my favorite: http://www.tinyprints.com/products/ProductView_4343.htm
I loved the individual photos (my kids always seem to get serious cases of the sillies whenever I try to pose them together... the individual photos usually are much better at capturing their personalities), the graphic, the color and the text. If I win the $50 gift certificate you can count on getting this one in your mailbox. :)

I love both because they aren't very Christmas-y, since my husband's family is Jewish, some of my family is Christian, and many of our friends are not religious. They both are simple and have no outright Christmas-type identifiers on them, meaning they would work for anyone. (I hate sending out multiple types of cards.) The Holly Blossoms has some great color to it, and I like highlighting both of our children. The Elegant Argyle is a gorgeous deep brown color and provides nice framing for a family portrait.